2024 Elections

A glib comment by Donald Trump, delivered with a smirk during a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, led to outrage on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon.

MSNBC host Ana Cabrera drew attention to comments made by the former president after he was alerted by Fox News personality Harris Faulkner that critics of his abortion policies were doing a "prebuttal" aimed at his appearance at the women-only Fox event.

Among those critics were the parents of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who was allowed to die due to anti-choice legislation passed by the state's Republican legislative majority that led doctors to withhold care over fears of being arrested.

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During the Faulkner interview, she stated, "Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call, and they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now.”

That led the former president to joke, "Oh, that’s nice,” to which the pro-Trump audience laughed before he added, “We’ll get better ratings, I promise," which led to more laughter including from Fox's Faulkner.

After sharing the Fox News clip, MSNBC host Cabrera looked stunned and told her guests, "The ratings? The laughter? Jennifer, how should voters square that moment with what Trump has said about how women should trust him, that he's a protector of women?"

Former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn angrily replied, "That was such a despicable moment to try to make a joke and pull a laugh out of the audience when discussing the completely unnecessary loss of life of a young woman."

"But it very much revealed, just another of the million examples of who Donald Trump is, and how he really thinks instinctively about women," she continued. "He said he's going to take care of women, 'the father of IVF.' He has no understanding of women as equal members of society, as equal, full, whole human beings. He's extremely paternalistic in his views of women, which makes him a dangerous potential leader for this country if he gets to be president again."

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Donald Trump tried to win over skeptical women voters this week at a town hall event in Georgia, but CNN's Hadas Gold revealed there weren't many persuadable women there.

Her fact-checking colleague Daniel Dale determined the former president made at least 19 false claims during the question-and-answer session in Milton, about a half hour north of Atlanta, and Gold reported that host network Fox News wasn't entirely forthcoming with viewers about the women in the audience.

Daniel P. Meyer, a 25-year veteran of national security law, released a memo sent to members of the U.S. Senate, claiming that his client is aware of a program by Donald Trump to surveil Democratic officials in Congress.

Florida reporter Grant Stern posted the memo on his Substack. Among the details, it says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) were all being watched by an effort that continued from 2022 into this year.

Legal experts on Thursday had one response to former President Donald Trump's plea that his election interference case judge not release new evidence until after the upcoming election.

"This is a long shot," said Bloomberg law and politics reporter Zoe Tillman. "But stay tuned."

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning, former U.S. Naval War College professor and current Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols expressed his dismay with the MAGA supporters of Donald Trump for not taking American elections seriously.

According to the conservative writer, Trump's fans are more invested in being entertained than they are in seeing the lives bettered and are happy to gloss over the fact that he is increasingly "unstable."

Speaking with the "Morning Joe" hosts, he was asked why the election is still "neck and neck" with Vice President Kamala Harris in the polls.

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"You know, it's such a sad question because I think the answer is that, over the past 30, 40 years, there are millions of people who just stopped taking elections seriously," he grimly admitted.

"There are millions of people who think that what they really want is to renew four years of the Donald Trump show," he elaborated. "They know he's unstable, they know he's weird, they know that he's losing it. "That's part of his appeal to them -- that he's interesting. It's fun."

"I think the other thing we really have to understand is that, you know, we talk about polarization, but this is more than polarization," he added. "This is 60, 70 million people saying, the worse Donald Trump gets, the better. Then, when he is elected, that's really going to discomfort and aggravate and frighten, you know, the other 100 million people in America."

"Every time I look at this election, I think of the Trump voter some years ago who criticized Trump by saying he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting," he recalled.

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During a discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on the dueling interviews of Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Wednesday, co-host Jonathan Lemire singled out an admission by the former president on the Jan. 6 insurrection that appears to have gone unnoticed.

Speaking with co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Wilie Geist, Lemire first praised Harris' performance on Fox News where she faced an abrasive Bret Baier, telling the panel, "The Harris people I spoke to in the aftermath of the interview said it showed real toughness. They love that she was able to say things to Fox News viewers who wouldn't normally hear them. It's not a coincidence; this interview happened hours after she appeared with a dozen of Republicans, lawmakers who are supporting her."

Turning back to Trump, he pointed to a clip of the former president appearing at a Univision town hall where he was asked about the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 MAGA riot that followed.

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As the obviously fuming Lemire explained, "Mika, one more note about Donald Trump yesterday, the clip we played about January 6th, talking about 'we,' as he always talks about, uses the word 'we' when he talks about the January 6th rioters."

"He said, 'we were there peacefully, they had the guns," he reported. "The 'they'? They were Capitol police officers –– that shows you Donald Trump's framing of January 6th."

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More than a dozen Republicans who served as "fake electors" in 2020, including some who are facing criminal charges, are reportedly serving as official Donald Trump electors in battleground states this year, while another 16 electors from those states say president Joe Biden's election win was fraudulent.

Altogether, election deniers and fake electors make up more than a third of the 82 electors chosen this year to support the former president in the seven states where he tried to overturn his 2020 loss, and their involvement in this year's contest could lead to post-election chaos if Trump loses again, reported CNN.